Hindustan Times
There are two albums sitting on my desk next to the laptop that I’m typing on and I haven’t yet heard them. One of them is Bruce Springsteen’s new and, as I understand, angry album, Wrecking Ball. Serendipitously, the album landed just as I was thinking of Springsteen. I like Springsteen although I’m not as huge a fan of the sincere, honest, working-class hero musician as are a couple of my colleagues. He is politically outspoken and many of his albums are themed on major issues of their times—Wrecking Ball has been associated by critics with the current financial crisis in the US. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 6:33 pm
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I hadn’t really heard the music of Delhi’s popular rock band, Them Clones, before getting a copy of their debut album, love. hate. heroes (EMI, Rs 195). One reason for not having heard them was, of course, the fact that although Them Clones have been a hot act on the gig circuit, I haven’t been to a rock concert in many years, preferring the infinitely more sedentary option of listening to music via downloads and most typically on my mp3 players with the phones stuck deep into my ear canals.
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(4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Abbie Hoffman, Beyond Here Lies Nothin’, Bob Dylan, Clone This CD, Creative Commons, Download Central, Fitz and The Tantrums, free downloads, Frightened Rabbit, Glaswegian indie bands, In Rainbows, Indrajit Hazra, Living In Colour, love. hate. heroes, mp3, Nothing Like You, Nugs Net, Phish, Radiohead, Return of the Dead, rock concert, Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus, Sony Music, Stars of The Lid Horchata, Steal This Album!, System of A Down, Them Clones, Together Through Life
